Pope Julius I

Pope Julius I (280-12 April 352) was Pope from 337 to 352, succeeding Pope Mark and preceding Pope Liberius.

Biography
Julius was born in 280 AD in Rome, and after the See of Rome was vacant for four months, he was chosen as the next Pope. Consecrated in 337, he was virtually excommunicated by Arian Christianity at the Council of Philippopolis in Serdica (present-day Sofia, Bulgaria) in the Byzantine Empire in 347, and he combatted the Arians for most of his tenure as pontiff. He died in 352 AD.